Daycare oversight a serious problem: Letter to the editor

Posted Jun 13, 2018

The owner of Sunnyside Sprouts Playschool had her license to watch children revoked in California. But Oregon day care regulators gave her a license, unaware of that checkered past. Problems ensued.(Brad Schmidt/Staff)

First, the Oregon daycare licensing system definitely needs to be improved.Second, parents need to know it's a huge red flag when a daycare provider does not let parents into the daycare center while the children are under the provider's care. Hagen seemed to have plausible sounding reasons listed on her website for why parents should not disturb the children, but in reality, she may have been hiding her harmful actions.

And third, we need to find a method for preventing Hagen and people like her from ever caring for children again. The allegations suggest that Hagen was a real con artist who deceived a lot of intelligent and caring parents with innocent children as her victims.